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A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi
Age: 78 †
Born: 1869
Born: October 2
Died: 1948
Died: January 30
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Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
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